II.*

It would be important to note the following in an article on the mobilization of [revolutionary] forces (the title, perhaps, is unsuitable, since it is too general, almost conventionally general, does not express the transition of the proletarian movement into revolution):

1) The enormous expansion of the base of the revolution is given by the gigantic agitational role of 9.1. One can shift many auxiliary, supplementary functions onto new, newly arrived forces, and allow purely conscious revolutionary elements to devote themselves more to the most urgent revolutionary tasks.

2) Expansion of the base for organization: a mass of auxiliary circles must be and can be created for the uprising, for the revolution.

3) The practical goal — the overthrow of the government — must be discussed and clarified practically already as the immediate goal, as the "tomorrow's demonstration."

p. 13—35

• EXCERPT FROM AULARD'S BOOK.

Aulard, p. 781.

In 1793, at the time of the so-called "giants," Mme Roland wrote in her Memoirs: "France seemed as if exhausted of men: it is truly a surprising thing, this scarcity of them in this revolution: there were scarcely anything but pygmies" (Works, Chapagneux edition, vol. II, p. 86).*

Aulard objects to this, saying that it is a pessimistic illusion. There was, he says, a middle generation (1789—1793). Then afterward, after the Terror, somewhat lower than middle: many were killed, which Napoleon was able to exploit.

*
The note was made on the same sheet as the excerpt from "Vossische Zeitung" (see above, p. 55). Ed.

** Aulard, p. 781. In 1793, at the time of the so-called "giants," Mme Roland wrote in her "Memoirs": "France seemed as if deprived of men: this scarcity of men during the revolution is truly striking: nothing but pygmies all around" (Collected Works, Champagneux edition, part II, p. 86). Ed.